TWO SUGGESTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1932, Page 2

TWO SUGGESTIONS

; .OLYMPIC TEAM’B MANAGER, y t PROPER • COACHING NEEDED. 7 WELLINGTON, : September 10. Two' suggestidns'for.the, future, were made "yesterday by- Mr P. N.Rundle, manager rof- - the. New* Zealand. Olympic ; Games 'oip liik r^fcuni7 7by^;the iMonowai front AttiericaV The first was tfeit.;#'V proper-: of " athelo.tm _ Cachingshould "be . ifistitutad iiL New and; thfe seebnd was that 1 the Rowing" to' Olympic Games be 'e'ifhts | who ..have .rowed to'•gptliet; ..and, picked y from - brews in different parts of the ■-.try. ’ : 7'7;., : ';:-;7.7 “My suggestion for ' the futurej’f. said Mr. Bundle, “is that a proper system of’ coaching for athletes should be developed in, New Zealand. There yjg no doubt that ’ our athletes are. in world class—or at\ least .that the material is there. But it must be developed. I asked Lovelock how he had improved so rapidly and’so, much, Ho said that'it waA thA.fkct. that he receiving a lot . of. high-clnis competition/' And, I am; Convinced that if our host , men were receiving more highclass competition they. would improve considerably. • S'Vy"-' 2 .-”-':'' “Our rowers are: undoubtedly ;in world clasSj despite thefact that they did, not win any event. But it, is undesirable in future,< I think, to send away a team picked pat from different parts of New Zealand; A club crew or interprovincial crew would he bet* ter. The British crew was the Cambridge crew, the Italian crew that of the' University of'TPisa/. thp Canadian ‘ the Leander crew; 5 thp. Americans the 'University of,' California, who had rowed ■ together- for four yeans. ,;It meant this: that our fellows had never raced together; before and they had .to go out and meet all these crack crews of the world.b